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ore than 70 years ago, a little girl watched and worried as salmon fry circled and darted in dwindling pools and irrigation ditches at the end of the aging summer. There was no escape for the coho raised in Tranquille Creek as water slowly evaporated and receded, drying up the channels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pools would get smaller and smaller,â&#x20AC;? recalled Joan Best, who grew up a few metres from the creek at Tranquille, where her father was groundskeeper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to put them [fry] in our red wagon and put them back into the lake.â&#x20AC;? Long before the sanitariumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farming practices drew water from Tranquille Creek, placer miners waded, dug and shovelled in
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LIKE A HAWK: Club member Sandy McDonald keeps track of planting willow and cottonwood near the mouth of Tranquille Creek at Kamloops Lake.
the creek that drains Bonaparte Plateau. Years of abuse by humans, including poor forestry practices resulting in higher peak flows during in spring freshet, brought sediment and channelization at the mouth of the creek where it drains into the east end of Kamloops Lake. In September of 2011, people walking dogs along the lake in late summer at Cooney Bay noticed the creek ran dry, what was left of the tepid runoff draining weakly into the gravel bed. That corresponded with a run of pink salmon.
A weather system that brought rainfall to the plateau above alleviated the problem enough to restore a small flow to the lake for the critical period. But, once again, the creek gave notice its fisheries habitat was degrading even further. This month, members of Kamloops Fish & Game Club did their part â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like the little girl in the late 1930s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to improve salmon survival in the creek. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In August, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably this wide and this deep,â&#x20AC;? said club member Sandy McDonald, indicating a channel a few feet wide and a few
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reasons for their rapid decline in the system include logging, agriculture, loss of shade cover in streams and historic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all factors symbolized in the decline of Tranquille Creek. Club members and school children have been busy in March, planting willow and cottonwood cuttings to stabilize stream banks. The work comes after a Department of Fisheries and Oceans effort this past winter to engineer a solution to the historic problem on the lower creek. An excavator placed logs in the creek, an
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inches deep. Each year elementary school students help rear eggs and fry in classroom aquariums and release them in spring upstream of here. Interior coho, considered genetically distinct from coho in the Lower Fraser system, are labelled endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). A research paper released 15 years ago classified Interior coho at risk for extinction. In addition to historic overfishing,
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